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Mark Leibovich

In Conversation with Franklin Foer and David Brooks

Apr 30, 2014 • 7:00 pm

Hailed as a “hysterically funny portrait of the capital’s vanities and ambitions” (The New Yorker), This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capitalcaptured America’s attention asthe political book of 2013.

Washington, D.C., might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation’s capital, just millionaires. In This Town,Leibovich—chief national correspondent forThe New York Times Magazine—presents a blistering examination of our ruling class’s incestuous “media industrial complex.”

When I first moved to DC in the early 80s, one heard people talk about “The Plan.” This was the African-American (then the black) working class community’s name for a supposed conspiracy to wrest political control from DC’s then black majority.

Since then the federal government has rapidly expanded, and imported mainly white bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists, who are more often than not paid six figure salaries. They’ve bid up the real estate prices and rents, and driven out working class and unemployed people, aka blacks, from DC.

And now comes word that the upper middle class white fat ‘crats are also breeding their upper middle class government dependent babies faster than those they are displacing. Of course, their ruling class government subsidized health insurance covers fertility treatments. Yours may not.

Mayor Gray Orders Department of Public Works to Collect Trash from Local Federal Parksduring Government Shutdown

DPW to Remove Trash from National Park Service Litter Cans to Prevent Spread of Vermin

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced today that, out of a concern for the spread of vermin, the Department of Public Works will begin servicing the litter cans at national parks in the District, starting Friday, October 4.

The collections only will take place from park sites that are accessible to the public (some parks have been barricaded by the National Park Service). The collections from these sites, which are under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, will continue while the federal government is shut down.

“The National Park Service parks in the District attract large numbers of visitors – especially during the unseasonably warm weather we have been enjoying lately. It is imperative that someone remove the trash in a timely fashion before garbage piles up and rodents and other vermin are attracted. Because the federal government cannot step up to provide this basic service to District residents and visitors, I have authorized DPW to service the litter cans for the duration of the federal shutdown,”said Mayor Gray.

Park visitors are asked to put their trash in the litter cans to assist DPW in their efforts to keep the parks vermin-free.

Trayvon Martin is dead because he didn’t just go home in his last 4 minutes or call the police to deal with his perception that a “creepy assed cracker” was stalking him, but instead started throwing punches.It may well be that he and many black children are taught to hate people of other races, not just whites, and interpret all actions by others as hostile and “disrespectful” so that they believe they are in the right to initiate violence. (I know in Washington, D.C. some black teens scream offers of sex, make threats about enslaving non-blacks in the future, or throw rocks at the cars of men and women of various races who come into contact with them on the streets — I have had all three of these things happen to me, both when I was alone and with groups, including groups of men and women and groups that included people of more than one race. Indeed, walking about town on Martin Luther King Day in DC for several hours seems to ensure that one will come across this, as groups of teens on holiday wander about Petworth, Adams Morgan, Meridian Hill Park, with nothing else to do.) This situation is not made any better by a federal and local governments whose policy outcomes include double digit black teen unemployment and 40% urban high school drop out rates. As well as a probably well-informed belief that if you are black and call the police to solve a dispute, you will end up arrested yourself.

Leftovers and the establishment media and the Obama administration have lied about this situation and fanned the flames all along, beginning with claiming that George Zimmerman was white and with NBC’s criminal editing of his 911 tape to make it sound like he was a racist and stalked Trayvon Martin for being black rather than for being a stranger trespassing in a gated community plagued with burglaries.This is likely a deliberate strategy. Having no solutions to the problems they have caused for the black underclass, the tax predator ruling class needs to keep them poor, illiterate, unemployed, angry, and hopeless, so that they will vote against other factions trying to take power in the welfare-warfare state and so that they catechism of race politics can be used both to character assassinate political competitors and to create barriers to entry to anyone who might bring about reform or revolution of their corrupt system.

The picture the MSM showed was of course when Martin was much younger.This picture, of him buying the Skittles and ice tea, shows a young man towering over the store clerk. Of course, height doesn’t make the aggressor, but it shows that he was not the “young child” portrayed by media. This picture didn’t fit the narrative.